I've played both and in my opinion they both have their perk's. Rugby is a lot more consistent and flowing, due to there being less wistle's. I do believe that rugby is more of team sport over football as well, there's a lot more communication. Though football has harder hit's and the play in my opinion is more organized. It's all a matter of opinion really, I enjoyed playing both all the way through highschool, during rugby season i'd love rugby but then durring football i'd fall back in love with football.
rugby or american football
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None of us here have played professional football and professional rugby, right?
However, my neighbour, has.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Gardent_(rugby_league)
He will tell anyone who will listen that over a whole game, he's more beat up after Rugby. But the one off hits in football are bigger because you get time to line people up.
None of us here have played professional football and professional rugby, right?
However, my neighbour, has.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Gardent_(rugby_league)
He will tell anyone who will listen that over a whole game, he's more beat up after Rugby. But the one off hits in football are bigger because you get time to line people up.
Unfair, I love them both. It’s like asking which parent you love best.
apples and oranges
apples and oranges
Played Super League Rugby League for Celtic Crusaders and NFL for Carolina Panthers.
I've played both. I've often wondered why I saw more injuries on the football field than with rugby despite the lack of protective gear. My conclusion is that football players feel more protected with all the gear and are more apt to abuse their bodies because of the support of the pads. Additionally, since football plays are incremented and hold more individual importance than rugby (typically) players are more inclined to exert maximum energy in the struggle for small amounts of yardage.
I play Rugby League so I am probably slightly biased. I think American Football is more dangerous, but Rugby League is much more physically demanding (and more so than Union, which I have played also). American Football seems to allow tackles that Rugby League have outlawed due to the dangerous neck & back injuries. I often feel like I've been in a car crash the day after the game. I have been to hospital after games to be told I have whiplash too. Also like someone said, in American Football you get chance to line a person up, which you get to do in League once every 4 games or so if you're lucky. See the YouTube link referred to earlier. Some of the hits are mental in League.
I'm american and play rugby as well but my vote would have to go to football. These guys are absolute monsters. The contact that is created. and the force of each hit is probably something that know1 will ever be able to understand. Thats y they have to be sooooo ripped to be able to substain hits like that. Football is played on a sunday, and I have heard that these guys can't even move for about 3 days after the game because of the soreness. Than they have a few light practices and it's back at it again on sunday. The injuries that have been shown to come to players after they retire because of their carreers makes it a no doubter. Each play usualllyy has 2-3 guys atleast fallin on the guy who all weight about 240 (minimum) Some of these front line guys are 350 lol. Have fun having 3 of them fall on you
football is pretty insane but rugby is just brutal and i agree with 'joey tribini' with rugby being more physically demanding. In football its really stop and start while rugby is a lot more 'fluid' so its much more tiring. Not sure about league being tougher than union, in some aspects it is but union can be pretty damn tough - for example my team were two men down due to injuries and the other team seemed to love to chuck the ball about the pitch so we were all knackered having to run round the pitch for ages 
Well, I'll start off my reply by saying that I am a New Zealander that is no longer allowed to play rugby due to the number of concussions I sustained (12 by the age of 21, and I was a halfback). I think that the hits sustained in American football are much bigger than in rugby, because in rugby you can't really line up a big hit all the time, as it's not really the point. You want to go for the ball after the tackle, so you need to smother the guy, and it's also very easy to get drawn in or dummied by the attacker. I would say that both games definitely leave you with a fair amount of soreness afterwards!
Would also agree with the earlier post about getting sconned by a cricket ball that is travelling at 90 miles per hour. Hurts like nothing else, but luckily I was a bowler....
Would also agree with the earlier post about getting sconned by a cricket ball that is travelling at 90 miles per hour. Hurts like nothing else, but luckily I was a bowler....